Hallway Adventures

The next area of the house started being prepared for plastering and it all started so well...

Chris had the task of removing the corner cupboard and Jac started knocking back the walls.

 No tools needed for this one, the plaster came off the walls far too easy! 
Nice quick job tho  :)

Then it started to go a little bit wrong.  As the coving was removed there was a swift realisation that this was the only thing holding up the ceiling...

 Oops!

Looks a bit messy but we've been here before, the same thing happened in Chapel View a year ago so we knew it wouldn't take much to fix. (Note the '4' pipes coming from above, that's more fun and games later.)

And soon it was all knocked back and ready for the next step.

Remember those '4' pipes? ...

One of them wasn't attached to anything in the ceiling so Chris thought it would be a good idea to remove the whole thing as it wasn't really doing anything... Or so we thought...

Cue water, lots of water and a full drain of the central heating system into a couple of gorilla tubs. Turns out the pipe was capped off at the ceiling but still connected somewhere under the floor.  The water stopped eventually and with the help of Norm, a running repair was made to the pipe and it was capped off (again) - NEVER TO BE TOUCHED AGAIN CHRIS! :)

So 4 hours later after that little mishap, the ceiling was plasterboarded - thanks again Norm for your help  :)

And while all this was going on, Jac was tucked away in the greenhouse potting up our veggie seedlings.  This year's harvest should hopefully include tomatoes, chillies, aubergines and salady bits.